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Bill Zaumen

@atoponce For the example - ChatGPT botching arithmetic - it actually passed the Turing test. Once in a store, I ordered 2.2 lb of some deli item, and the scale registered 2.02. The guy behind the counter called 2.20 "two point twenty" and 2.02 "two point two". The scale always showed two digits past the decimal point. This guy basically made the same mistake as ChatGPT.

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flere-imsaho

@bzdev nah. don't antropomorphise a statistical engine.

Joe Vinegar

@bzdev @atoponce well, the guy was omitting the "hundredths" in reading decimals, for short as it was always two decimal digits. That's not wrong at all, given the context, and also different from the error in chatgpt interaction.

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